Andrea Canning

I mean, it was really good because we've all heard this story and we've seen pieces of this story, but this is the first time I've seen the story put all together.

Yeah.

And, you know, you see Brian's back to his assailant.

And it seems like Brian Thompson, as you said in the piece, is walking into a trap.

And then like out of a movie on this surveillance video, you see this assailant lift up a gun.

I mean, I froze it because I just looked at it for a few seconds.

The assailant just standing there with this very professional looking weapon.

Yeah, I was really surprised by that detective saying that, what was it, in his 25 years, he'd never seen a silencer, which I guess we're so used to it in TV and movies, people using these, you know, silencers that for an NYPD detective to have never had seen one.

Yeah.

Well, speaking of that gun, one of the things that sent me down the rabbit hole, Lester, was the bullets that handwritten on them was depose, delay, deny, which is apparently the criticism of how health insurance companies handle claims.

And I started looking into it because I felt like I had seen it before.

And

You know, this has happened where things are written on bullets, maybe with a Sharpie, or they can even be inscribed, you know, permanently into the ammunition.

And so there was the ICE field office shooting in Dallas, the shell casing said anti-ICE, the murder of Charlie Kirk happened.

Hunters apparently would inscribe or have inscribed inspirational messages on their casings.

Even back to World War II, bullets and bombs, they would write things on the ammunition.

Right.

And it really, one thing that seemed to come full circle, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, apparently he used to inscribe the letters FC into parts of his bombs, which those letters he explained stood for Freedom Club.

You learned that Luigi Mangione had an interest in Ted Kaczynski.

Yeah, but he did go on, though, to talk about Ted Kaczynski.